When should we purchase the train ticket and website for June 25, 2022. We leave from Rome to Naples and then a private driver to Sorrento.
Posted by
Ontario, Canada
5429 posts
Whenever you want. Advance tickets (nonrefundable) are available now. The Trenitalia website is: https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
The Italotreno website is: https://biglietti.italotreno.it/Mobile_Booking_Acquisto_Ricerca.aspx?Culture=en-US
Posted by
Italy
3812 posts
All kind of tickets ara available now.
The most flexible and expensive are the on-day tickets, called Base on trenitalia.com and Flexi on Italotreno.it.
Of course nobody buys BASE and Flexi in advance, but they are displayed with all the other fares. You can't pay more than that.
Ticket sales close 15 minutes before the scheduled departure time.
The offer of discounted tickets (Economy, Super-Economy, Smart etc.) is capacity controlled and they can't be purchased on the day of travel.
Savings come at a price, discounted tickets can't be refunded and changes are restricted. Unlike BASE and Flexi tickets, if you miss your train even for a second discounted tickets are fully wasted.
In short, you trade money for flexibility. On longer routes the price difference can be substantial, especially if There are more than 2 travelling together.
The price of the slow Regionale trains is fixed.
Posted by
Downingtown, USA
2449 posts
Be sure to validate ticket before you board train and get off at correct Naples station. This is from my memory of two years ago so hope this Info is still correct.
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
33819 posts
you need to validate Regionale tickets purchased from machines or over the counter.
Fast train (IC and above including Freccia and all of Trenitalia) require specific seat reservations and are not got on other trains so require no validation, also Regionale tickets purchased on phone or internet need no validation, again they have time limits built in.